William Shakespeare needs no introduction. It is impossible to imagine English literature without this literary giant.

Chloé Zhao’s "Hamnet" tells the story of Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway during the events that inspired the tragedy ...

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) was an amusing, engaging performance that smoothly blended humour with the ...

Judi Dench and William Shakespeare are pretty much synonymous with each other. He has played a momentous part in her career, ...

Dame Judi Dench is perhaps our greatest Shakespearean actor. In Channel 4's Shakespeare, My Family and Me, the Oscar winning ...

While writing the novel Hamnet, which imagines the hidden origins of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the author Maggie O’Farrell did something counterintuitive: She avoided referencing or quoting the ...

The names “Hamlet” and “Hamnet” were interchangeable 500 years ago in England, a linguistic quirk that is used to great effect by the Northern Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell in “Hamnet: A Novel of ...

When you hear the name “Shakespeare,” how do you react? Do you suddenly recoil? Reminiscing those pubertal days of your eighth grade honors English class, where Mrs. Whoever has just called on you to ...

When Dame Judi Dench tries to teach her recalcitrant African grey parrot, Sweetie, the name of her literary hero, she’s met with stony silence. “Shakespeare!” the Oscar-winning actress coos, before ...

From left: Director Li Liuyi, actors Pu Cunxin and Hu Jun attend a news conference of the second round of performances of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in Beijing on Dec 24. [PHOTO BY WANG ...

In this lecture, Robert Pogue Harrison argues that the monologues in Dante’s Inferno are in some ways more “modern” in their psychology than the soliloquies in Shakespeare’s tragedies. University ...